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December 6, 2024
...Mission to Pluto Approved 12/03/2001 The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has been selected by NASA to plan a mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt for 2006 launch and...
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Origin of Life

Mooney Tunes: The Fantasy Moons of Astrobiologists Leave Science Far Behind
October 3, 2024
...you can imagine it forming. James Webb Space Telescope deciphers the origins of Pluto’s icy moon Charon (1 Oct 2024, Space.com). What does Pluto’s moon Charon have going for storytellers?...
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Origin of Life

Astrobiology as a Drug
May 16, 2024
...life at Pluto, nor does the paper in Nature Astronomy. Pluto and Venus appear too extreme even for bio-astrology pushers. Why there may be oceans inside dwarf planets beyond Pluto...
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Philosophy of Science

Good-bye Anthropocene
March 8, 2024
...planet, Plutoid, Kuiper Belt Object, and Trans-Neptunian Object. There were disputes about where to draw the line when other Pluto-sized objects were found. Any consensus today seems strained. One additional...
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Pluto (color-enhanced) from New Horizons, Sept 24, 2015 release
Solar System

Pluto Volcano Must Be Young
October 25, 2023
...rope representing Pluto being active for most of its history, and other features on Pluto look younger than that (search on Pluto at this site). Before the New Horizons spacecraft...
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Solar System

How to Keep the Solar System Old: Struggle and Hope
December 2, 2022
...Dec 2022. Charon from New Horizons, July 14, 2015, showing red spot at north pole. Pluto and Charon A new explanation for the reddish north pole of Pluto’s moon Charon...
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Pluto (color-enhanced) from New Horizons, Sept 24, 2015 release
Solar System

Pluto Falsifies Deep Time
March 30, 2022
...of the volatile ices found on Pluto’s surface make it unique among the visited places in the solar system. How Unique Is Pluto? Can Pluto be dismissed as a one-off...
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Pluto (color-enhanced) from New Horizons, Sept 24, 2015 release
Solar System

Geologists Smash Pluto to Make it Look Old
February 7, 2022
...young features, so a “hot Pluto” model is needed— with a little help from (Incoming rock alert!… WHAM!!) impactors. This liquid water ocean has huge implications for how Pluto formed...
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Pluto (color-enhanced) from New Horizons, Sept 24, 2015 release
Solar System

Can Pluto’s Atmosphere Last Billions of Years?
October 7, 2021
...Pluto occult a star on the night of August 18, 2021. This allowed them to measure the height and density of Pluto’s thin atmosphere. The press release says: Like Earth,...
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Solar System

Forcing Planets into Line
July 30, 2020
...the planets with sizes relative to Jupiter. Inner Workings: Was Jupiter born beyond the current orbits of Neptune and Pluto? (PNAS). In this entry of a series called “Inner Workings,”...
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Solar System

Venus Is Erupting
July 20, 2020
...has lava-filled craters, and Mars has dead volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. Pluto may have current or recent eruptive activity. But why Enceladus, Triton,...
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Solar System

Saturn Scientists Dodge Age Issues
June 19, 2020
...Created Solar System,” with the latest material about Pluto. If you want to see a really tough case for the moyboys, watch it when it is released. (The episode is...
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Solar System

Landslides on Pluto Happened Quickly
May 7, 2020
...on the western rim of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia basin. These mountain blocks are likely disrupted pieces of Pluto’s water ice crust that are grounded in the nitrogen ice that fills...
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Solar System

Spinning Solar System Objects to Keep Them Old
June 7, 2019
If you remove the obligation to think in billions of years, many phenomena in the solar system make more sense. Pluto More anomalies on Pluto look young. “Pluto is coloured...
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Solar System

Young Solar System Evidence Pops Up Everywhere
May 1, 2019
If the solar system formed more recently than believed, Darwinism is dead. Look how widely scattered the evidence is. Dunes, glaciers, and convection cells in Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia Pluto Recent...
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